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Identifying and responding to microaggressions

This short online course will help participants understand, identify, and address the impact of microaggressions.

About the course

Microaggressions are subtle, everyday slights or put downs. Regardless of whether they are intentional or unintentional, they can create a hostile working environment.

This short online course (2.5 hours) aims to help participants understand and identify microaggressions, particularly racial ones, and their impact on recipients. It will also cover strategies to avoid committing microaggressions and how to respond when witnessing them. The session includes discussions, activities, and reflections led by two experienced academics.

Format/Delivery:

  • Online (Zoom)

Course Fee:

  • £180 per person

Availability:

This course is available upon request as a bespoke training course for organisations.

We recommend group sizes of 5–10 participants, with a course fee of £180 per person. Discounts may be available.

If you are an individual interested in attending this course, please contact us to register your interest and enquire about future delivery dates. We will be happy to discuss availability and notify you if an open course is scheduled.

Please enquire by email at hlscpdadmissions@brookes.ac.uk.

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Course Outline:

The course will enable participants to develop an understanding of:

  • What microaggressions are
  • How to identify them
  • What is the impact is on the receiver
  • Ways to avoid carrying out microaggressions
  • How to respond to witnessing microaggressions when they take place.
  • The focus will be on racial microaggressions but other types of microaggressions will also be discussed.

During the session, you will be invited to participate in discussions, activities and short reflection tasks guided by two academics with personal and professional experience in the area.

Benefits

Course participants will increase their awareness of a key area of equality and diversity practice that will enable them to be more inclusive in their professional and personal lives.

Course participants will also leave with resources to support deepening their understanding of key issues.

Feedback from previous cohorts

“This was a great workshop to share information about microaggressions and how they impact people of the global majority in a compound and chronic way”

Course participant

“Brilliantly crafted, explained the nuances well and energised me further to take an anti racist stance”

Course participant

Contact us

Course will be delivered online.

  • Course Lead, Prof Louise Taylor, Email: louise.e.taylor@brookes.ac.uk
  • General Enquiries: HLS CPD Admissions, Email: hlscpdadmissions@brookes.ac.uk 


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